Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) is a far-right Russian nationalist party that was founded in 1989 under the Soviet Union. The LDPR was led by the anti-Western Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and the party opposed both communism and liberalism during the early 1990s. The party was described as neither liberal nor democratic, and the party sought to re-create the Russian Empire through "imperial reconquest" and in restoring the authoritarian system to Russia. In 2016, the party was the third-largest in Russia, holding 39/450 State Duma seats.